Michael zur Muehlen just posted an paper on The Business Process Analytics Schema: http://www.bpm-research.com... The state-oriented appoach makes perfect sense to me. It is a straight forward shema design you can easily incorperate into your own process exception handling framework. You can also extend it by adding more fine-grained sub-states for your process minning needs. There is a minor issue I think can be improved to make it more elegant...
Anne Thomas Manes has an interesting post stated that SOA is dead. Despite the dramatic eye-catching writing style, she does get a little bite on the issue. "Successful SOA (i.e., application re-architecture) requires disruption to the status quo. SOA is not simply a matter of deploying new technology and building service interfaces to existing applications; it requires redesign of the application portfolio. And it requires a massive shift in the way IT operates. Does this sound familiar to you?...